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Chapter 193 Promise to Help the Sect Leader

After a cup of tea, Huang Ziying's crying in Shi Chen's arms gradually subsided. Through this crying, she vented all the grievances, worries, longings and pains in her heart.

Shi Chen silently accompanied Huang Ziying, allowing her to vent her emotions. He knew that Huang Ziying needed a shoulder to lean on and someone to listen to her heart.

Huang Ziying's crying gradually subsided and finally stopped. She raised her head and looked at Shi Chen with a grateful smile on her face.

"Thank you, Shi Chen." Huang Ziying said.

Shi Chen looked at his chest, which was already stained with tears, and said with a smile, "It's okay to let it out."

Huang Ziying saw the tear stains on Shi Chen's chest and suddenly blushed with shyness.

After adjusting his emotions, he took a deep breath, mustered up the courage and whispered, "Shi Chen, I want to follow you!"

"Huh?" Shi Chen looked at Huang Ziying in surprise, not understanding what she meant.

Huang Ziying smiled shyly and explained quickly, "My brother has already made his own way, and Third Uncle has also followed him. I am the only one left. Even if I go to find them, I won't be of much help and may even be a burden to them. As for the family, I have nothing worth staying with, so I'll let my uncle take control. You are the only person closest to me now, so I want to follow you. I hope you don't despise me."

"Following me will bring many dangers. I've often been in danger myself," Shi Chen said, looking at Huang Ziying seriously. "I don't know if I can protect you."

Huang Ziying said firmly: "I am not afraid of danger. I have nothing to lose. I believe you will protect me."

Shi Chen was touched when he heard Huang Ziying's words. He knew that Huang Ziying was a kind girl, and her decision also represented her determination.

After a moment of silence, Shi Chen nodded and said, "Okay, since you've made up your mind, then follow me. However, you must be mentally prepared for sleeping in the open air, fighting and fleeing."

Huang Ziying nodded heavily, her eyes full of joy as she said, "I know, I'm mentally prepared."

"Okay, let's talk about this first. You go back to the sect and pack your things. We will leave here together in an hour." Shi Chen said.

"Okay, I'll come find you here in an hour." Huang Ziying said, opened the door and walked out, then turned around and closed the door again.

After Huang Ziying left the Immortal Inn, Shi Chen said to the door, "Master Fang, please come in!"

"It's not easy to see Master Shi!" Fang Huan, the leader of Qingxuan Sect, pushed the door open and closed it behind him.

Shi Chen cast a ban, then kowtowed and said, "Disciple Shi Chen, greetings to the Sect Master!"

"We are not in the sect here. It's just the two of us. There's no need to perform such a grand ceremony." Fang Huan said with a smile as he pulled Shi Chen up.

"Master, etiquette cannot be abolished. Respecting teachers is what a disciple should do." Shi Chen said seriously.

"Now that the news of your presence has leaked out, several elders who have a karmic connection with you are probably on their way here. You'd better be careful." Fang Huan said calmly with a steady demeanor.

"Disciple understands that the Sect Master came here to resolve the disciple's situation, right?" Shi Chen said calmly.

Fang Huan nodded slightly and said, "You were prevented from becoming Elder Li's disciple by Wu Jingzhi, and left the sect out of anger. Wu Jingzhi, punished by Elder Li, left the sect to search for you but could not find you. He was possessed by an inner demon. Elder Wu Zhaojun came to find you to free Wu Jingzhi from this inner demon, but she and Elder Li engaged in a fierce fight within the sect. Later, Elder Li sent his personal disciple, Zhao Rui, to search for you, but you refused to return. The current chaos in the sect is all because of you. Do you acknowledge your guilt?"

Shi Chen frowned. This matter was indeed caused by him, but it was not his fault. Now the situation is pressing. It seems that the bigwigs of the sect want to put the blame on me and use moral kidnapping. However, the sect leader Fang Huan did not take action to catch me. With his perfect cultivation in the fusion stage, it was easy for him to deal with me. But now he is talking nonsense to me. There is something fishy about this matter.

After a short moment of thought, Shi Chen spoke up, "Since the Sect Master hasn't directly used the sect's laws to arrest me, he must have something else to ask me. You can just tell me directly. As long as I can do it, I will definitely not refuse."

"You are a teachable young man!" Fang Huan continued without hesitation, "You have been in the sect for over twenty years, so you should have heard that the sect is divided into three factions. One is me and Elder Li, the other is the Great Elder Ling Daoji and the Second Elder Wu Zhaojun. The other elders are all fence-sitters."

Shi Chen nodded. He had been in this profession for quite some time, so he knew some of these things.

Fang Huan continued, "My faction and I, Elder Li, have always been at odds with the First and Second Elders, and we've had constant conflicts in recent years. This time, they're trying to use your situation as an opportunity to test us. Elder Li was severely injured in the battle on Dayu Continent, and he's still recovering from his injuries. Last time, he fought the Second Elder's sect, further injuring himself. Now Elder Li is in seclusion, and the First and Second Elders are pressing me, forcing me to relinquish my position as Sect Leader."

Shi Chen was speechless, unable to understand why he, a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, could not play a big role in the sect's power struggle. It seemed that Sect Master Fang meant that the key still lay with him?

"In the power struggle among the sect's upper echelons, it seems that a Nascent Soul cultivator like me can't play much of a role?" Shi Chen asked doubtfully.

"Just listen to me first, and you'll understand." Fang Huan said with a wry smile, "I'm in charge of the sect's formation pavilion. The Great Elder is in charge of weapon refining, the Second Elder is in charge of alchemy, Elder Li is in charge of law enforcement and the battle hall, and the remaining elders are in charge of puppets, spirit beasts, talismans, spirit plants, and so on. The Great Elder's weapon refining controls Elder Li's battle hall, and the Second Elder is in charge of alchemy. All the sect's elixirs must pass through his hands, so most of the sect's disciples are also controlled by the Second Elder. As for the formations I'm in charge of, although they also play a significant role in the sect, they can't be compared with theirs."

Fang Huan sighed and continued, "The First and Second Elders are pressing me hard, trying to get me to relinquish my position as Sect Leader. Even with my Perfect Fusion, I can't stand up to their combined might."

Shi Chen frowned and said, "Then why doesn't the Sect Master ask other elders for help?"

Fang Huan smiled bitterly and said, "The other elders are all fence-sitters. They only know how to change their stance according to the situation. No one will truly help me."

Shi Chen was silent for a moment, figuring out the key: elixirs! The sect's greatest lifeline, and Shi Chen happened to be an alchemist, a great alchemist, a master of alchemy above the fifth rank.

Shi Chen said, "What does the Sect Master want me to do?"

"I know that you have already refused Elder Li's offer to become my disciple, and I will not force you to become my disciple. As long as you can refine pills to help us, without the restriction of pills, the first and second elders cannot force me to give up the position of sect leader." Fang Huan said.

"I promised to help you refine the pills, but I can only solve the problem temporarily by myself. Besides, I have important things to do and cannot stay in the sect for a long time. The sect is struggling for power, so the sect leader should think of other ways." Shi Chen said.

Fang Huan nodded and said, "Your agreement to help is already the greatest help. As for the sect's affairs, I will find a way to resolve them."